à cheval

[ a shuh-val; English ah shuh-val ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

French.

à cheval

/ a ʃəval /

adverb

literally: on horseback

I had not asked his name, but his regiment I knew to be the 22d Chasseurs à Cheval.

Again there was another means of travel which originated in Paris; it was known as the “Messageries à Cheval.”

Il venoit à nous au grand trot, et il étoit accompagné de trois hommes à cheval qui nous parurent bien armés.

The latter she distributed à cheval, with one en plein on the number eighteen.

Detachments of the 12th Dragoons and the 22d Chasseurs-à-Cheval.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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